A waiver would just cap/ prohibit wrongful death claims, negligence, emotion distress, and permanent disability claims, etc. The intent is not to deny regular healthcare for COVid treatment- that would of course continue to be covered. The purpose is to deny claims beyond regular medical care given it’s not practical for a school or anyone to be able to protect someone from a virus beyond ordinary and practical means. The waiver has the duel purpose of also serving as a blunt warning as well. As for long term medical care, I don’t know how schools are suppose to do that. Once a student is no longer a student their university health care ends. There is not enough money outside of the top 30 programs to provide long term health care to participants. Managing the claims would be impossible, and the long term liabilities easy to manage at first but over time crushing.
You are right that your post did not come across that way at all.
There should be no football until a vaccine. People just need to suck it up. If I'm a high draft pick, there's no way I'd risk it - see Eduardo Rodriquez as your first exhibit.
Glad you retired
it's not going to help anyone, but rando guy was talking it up.
that's a weird thing to say.I hope I didn't lose you on giving up your Lucky Strikes.
Well you are just wrong about 18-25 year olds not being at risk and further they are One of the groups least likely to abide By social distancing and mask rules. And they can pass it on to others.
Several things about the comparison with the 1918 flu are sort of like comparing apples and oranges. Most significantly, medicine has advanced dramatically in the past 100 years. And a contributing factor then was that the Goverment downplayed its impact to protect the war effort. And while it is a fact that people get old and die, at the height of the outbreak in Connecticut twice as many folks died than was typical in the same time period. So it isn’t like there wasn’t an impact. In California the death rate for 18-30 is about 1.4% per cal dept of health. Per the CDC, nationally deaths are between 19-23% higher Per week since Covid than would be expected in normal conditions. It is now the 3rd leading cause of death and it has only been around for 6 months.
How about other sports?
Good Lord, just go read the available statistics on mortality and hospitalizations by age groups. All there at the CDC.
Well actually you are talking apples and oranges when you say that medicine has advanced dramatically in the 100 years since 1918, which of course is true but only in certain areas. You try to apply that to your argument on 1918 vs 2020 with respect to antiviral therapy. Antiviral drugs are in their infancy, all they can do now is reduce a viruses ability to multiply in it's host, they absolutely cannot and do not destroy the target pathogen as antibiotic drugs do nowadays. Drugs to kill bacterial diseases like the plague, diptheria, cholera, typhoid fever, tuberculosis, syphilis, anthrax, scarlet fever, bacterial pneumonia, and strep infections are in every drug store. These diseases once killed millions every year, now they are distant memories. Antibiotic therapy has advanced tremendously in 100 years while destroying a virus in it's host by taking a pill is still a dream. I mean a cure for the common cold is still unattainable because killing a virus like it's a bacterial infection isn't possible even after 100 years. The 1918 Spanish Flu was a terrible disease that didn't just kill the elderly and the infirm, it killed young and healthy people just as quickly. The total death toll was 50 to 75 million, and it infected one third of the earths population. One thing you never touched on is that people who smoke are much more likely to get deathly ill from this virus.
I live in Mass, and many sports have been playing this summer like baseball and golf without problems. There have been some COVID scares, but I thought they were handled well. For example, 2 kids on a team were exposed to COVID and they were not allowed to play for their team, were tested, and quarantined for 14 days even though they tested negative. Then they rejoined the team.
I’m shocked how much little league baseball has been going on and so far so good... glad it’s happening.
So said a UConn college sports fan. No wonder they hate us.
